Location: Global role with a flexible location (preferred locations vary by sub-segment)
The Company
Our client is a world leading technology supplier whose products that sit at the heart of automated machinery. Relevant applications include warehouse automation and intralogistics, packaging, converting and textiles, lifts and escalators, energy regeneration and storage, tyre and rubber, and food processing.
The business is part of a global industrial technology group with more than 100,000 employees. Following a reorganisation into two application-focused segments, it is now building the leadership of its Machine Automation segment with a clear plan to grow substantially over the next five years.
The Opportunity
The Global Segment Leader is being appointed in a newly created role. The challenge is to turn a mandate and a growth plan into a focused, high-performing business: winning platform positions with global OEMs, taking share from larger competitors, and shaping how the wider segment operates alongside a newly appointed Segment Leader.
Scope:
- Global strategy and commercial ownership
- Build and lead a new team from the ground up, growing to as many as six direct reports
- Global key account ownership of the strategic OEMs in the application area
- Matrix leadership across regional sales organisations, product management, engineering and operations
- Regular international travel to customers, regional teams and group locations
Key Objectives
Build the team and the organisation. Identify, attract and develop a high-performing team of up to six, and help stand up the global and regional organisation the segment needs to reach scale.
Define the operating model. Establish the structure, ways of working and processes the segment needs to move quickly inside a large, established organisation.
Win with Tier 1 OEMs. Develop and own global relationships with the strategic OEMs, build account plans with the regional teams, and convert engagement into platform wins against well-resourced competitors.
Translate strategy into execution. Turn the five-year growth plan into clear priorities, pipeline visibility and measurable results. Long design-in cycles and in-year performance both require hands-on involvement.
Open new routes to growth. Deepen market and application understanding, sharpen the value proposition, and develop Tier 2, channel and group synergy opportunities, particularly in growth regions.
Experience
- Industrial automation, drives, motion control, electrification or a closely related industrial technology sector
- Global key account management into OEMs in application area is a strong advantage
- Building new teams, structures and processes inside a large, matrixed organisation; there is flexibility here for candidates with exceptional account development credentials in the relevant customer base
- A track record of identifying market opportunities and converting strategy into measurable growth
- Leaders currently working at OEMs and machine builders in these applications are welcome to apply, given the customer and application insight they bring
Mindset and capability
- A builder — energised by creating structure and momentum where none yet exists
- Able to lead and influence across regions and functions without relying on direct authority
- Balances strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, including leading key customer negotiations personally
- A credible leader who attracts talent, develops people and creates accountability in an organisation that is still forming
- Comfortable with ambiguity, pace and visible KPIs as tools for ownership
Essential
- Senior commercial or business development leadership in industrial technology, with global or multi-regional responsibility
- Strong English communication skills; additional languages are an advantage depending on location and customer base
- Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis
What Success Looks Like
Within the first year, you will have hired the core of your team; agreed and embedded the operating model for your sub-segment with the Segment Leader; established trusted relationships with the strategic OEMs, regional sales leaders and product management; put account plans and pipeline visibility in place; and set your sub-segment firmly on track for its five-year growth trajectory.
Applications are handled in confidence. Please apply with a CV through the LinkedIn link; a full company briefing will be shared with shortlisted candidates.
Global Segment Leader / Sr Director Key Account Development Arbeitgeber: Morgan Latif | B CorpTM
Morgan Latif ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern in der Region Baden-Württemberg eine dynamische und unterstützende Arbeitsumgebung bietet. Mit einem starken Fokus auf persönliche und berufliche Weiterentwicklung sowie einer Kultur der kontinuierlichen Verbesserung, ermöglicht das Unternehmen seinen Führungskräften, bedeutende Veränderungen in der Fertigung zu bewirken. Die Kombination aus innovativen Technologien und traditionellen Methoden schafft nicht nur maßgeschneiderte Lösungen, sondern fördert auch ein hohes Maß an Teamarbeit und Verantwortlichkeit.
